What a difference three decades make. The first Printers Row book fair, in 1985, featured about 40 booksellers and attracted a reported 6,500 attendees to what once had been a somewhat dicey neighborhood. Considering the crowds in recent years, the 2014...

Your last-minute chance to pick up an artsy gift for dad, The Threadless Headquarters is hosting the Threadless Art Market on Saturday, which, in addition to discounted Threadless gear, showcases work from Chicago arists. Eriewood Collective will be on-...

There is wonder in the work of sculptor John Kearney, and that wonder — in the form of large-scale metal sculptures that dot the Chicago area — gives joy to any who pass by the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Scare Crow and Dorothy and Toto in Oz...

The urge to create is as old as the human race, as ancient as the day someone felt the urge to draw colorful lines across bodies and faces or, more permanently, paint on or carve into the walls of a cave. This sort of self-expression reaches a natural, if...

The Chicago Blues Festival, several neighborhood festivals, an international soccer double-header at Soldier Field and the Chicago World Naked Bike Ride are among weekend events that could snarl traffic in Chicago this weekend.
The blues event takes over Grant Park Saturday and Sunday, closing Columbus Drive and Jackson Drive in the immediate park area. Lake Shore Drive remains open.
The Wells Street Art Festival closes Well Street between North Avenue and Division Street Saturday and Sunday. LaSalle...

This weekend saw both the Party at St. Mike's and the Old Town Art Fair come to Lincoln Park. RedEye went in search of people sober enough to be coherent but inebriated enough to be candid about their favorite parts of the fests.

Old Town Art Fair Photos

We love our college friends, no question, and we love having them visit, but despite being several years out of college, deep down we know it’s unavoidable. I’m talking about the natural phenomenon that occurs when we are all in the same place at the same tim